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Traci Tackett posted
Late January isn’t typically the time of year that Kentucky gardeners go to the backyard and harvest greens for salad! Lucky for us, the school garden at Pikeville Elementary School is thriving! The students were able to harvest enough kale, pak choy, carrots, turnips and radishes for 2 days worth of kale salad in the cafeteria. Our students…Read More
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Traci Tackett posted
http://www.motherofahubbard.com/growing-school-gardens-in-winter/
Please check out the blog post about our school garden at Pikeville Elementary School!2 Comments-
This is fantastic, Posting this in our Tech Tuesday flyer.
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Fantastic work! I’d love to see the videos the students made. Have you had any beekeepers talk to the students?
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Traci Tackett posted
Tues. Jan 13th was a cold day, but with temps in the 30’s we were able to take of the GG 51 row cover and leave the GG 30 to take care of the plants this week. The kale you see this young man crunching on is as sweet as can be! So yummy! We have eaten it in stir-fry, salad and baked kale chips. At home I use it in soup. Kale is extremely…Read More
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Traci Tackett posted
Wed. Jan, 7th was a bitterly cold day in Pikeville, Ky. Many schools in our region were closed due to the low temps and slick conditions. We decided to test the garden beds by covering them prior to the cold snap with two layers of Grow Guard (Agribon) row covers. One layer was GG 30 and the other was GG 51. The outside temperature read 10…Read More
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Traci Tackett posted
As we checked on the garden beds today, we saw first hand the importance of placing a Fall/Winter garden in a sunny location. The “Cole Slaw” garden is on our playground in a shady place. The first photo shows the ice crystals that were on the veggies at 10:00 this morning. The following pics show the difference in the garden beds that are on…Read More
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Traci, this is awesome!